Activating Your Leadership to Advance Inclusion

When “DEI” is being mischaracterized and weaponized, how should we structure a commitment to access and inclusion? In what ways might we better leverage our organizations’ missions to lead transformation? How can we better center the needs of students and other constituents while fielding attacks on our work?

In consideration of a range of influences on the future of higher education, shared equity leadership (SEL; Kezar et al., 2021) can help organize improvements, support collaboration, and provide clarity around how to make advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion everyone’s work.

In this keynote Dr. Sonia DeLuca Fernández will introduce SEL and focus on the potentials for new conceptualizations of accountability and how your leadership is critical to re/creating practices that support access and inclusion.
 

Equity-Centered Assessment: A Call to Action for Libraries

Equity-centered assessment places equity at the core of both the process and the product of our assessment work. In her keynote, Dr. Heiser will embark with attendees on a dynamic exploration of how assessment can be transformed to actively dismantle inequities.

Together, you’ll examine key insights from over 500 higher education professionals who are navigating the complexities of integrating equity into their assessment practices. With a particular focus on the role libraries can play in closing equity gaps in educational outcomes, we’ll delve into actionable strategies to advance equity at individual, organizational, and systemic levels—while confronting the barriers that persist.

This session invites you to not only reimagine what’s possible but to lead the way in creating equitable learning environments through intentional, data-informed, and equity-centered practices.